Soma Gold Corp. announced initial results from the 2024 diamond drill program at the Cordero Mine on the Bagre Project in central Colombia. Nineteen diamond drill holes, totaling 2,759m of drilling, were completed by underground and surface drill rigs.

The drilling to date has targeted the up-dip extension of gold-bearing quartz veins commonly referred to as the "Cordero Vein." The Cordero Vein has been successfully mined from Level 2 to Level 6 of the mine. Earlier attempts to develop above Level 2 were terminated in a cross-cutting mafic dyke. The first/Q2 drill program was designed to evaluate the western side of the dyke for the continuation of the Cordero Vein, a target that had not previously been tested.

Assays from the drill holes are reported and discussed in this press release. The Cordero Deposit is hosted in the El Carmen Stock, which is comprised of coarse-grained tonalite, diorite, and gabbroic phases. The quartz veins are formed as laminated fault-fill veins within a sinistral brittle-ductile shear zone.

They are interpreted as conjugate shears within a steeply-dipping, north-striking regional shear zone. The controlling shear zone also hosts the Los Mangos Deposit 2.8 kilometres to the north. The quartz veins within the Cordero Deposit form a series of en echelon segments that consistently step to the right along strike.

The veins have been repeatedly reactivated and exhibit three distinct phases of development: early barren quartz veins, sphalerite + galena + pyrite + gold mineralization controlled by microfractures, and brittle fracturing along the margins of the veins filled with quartz + pyrite + tellurides + gold. Gold mineralization is associated with the latter two phases of vein development. The final stage of brittle fracturing and micro-breccia is commonly associated with bonanza gold grades.

The veins are subsequently crosscut by aphanitic mafic dykes and numerous brittle faults. The brittle faults are generally extended and offset the quartz veins from.